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I'm right here.
I've got a bit too much different work on my hands (and none of it is going very smooth), so little free time and quite a bit of stress

Great track though!
Good to see this tradition lives on even when I'm not around
I loved Porcupine Tree's Fear Of A Blank Planet, especially the song Anesthetize[^].
My only problem with that song is that it's only 17:43 minutes
I should check out more Steven Wilson.

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From another thread I realized that it's now time to rename C++ to "Templates with C". It started out as "C with Classes" then "C++", and now "Templates with C". Before long it's going to become "Templates without C", then it'll just be "Templates, B$tch".

The downside of C/C++ macros is that there is no specific syntax to invoke them. So they can just randomly rename things in your code because you happened to name something the same as some macro that you never even knew existed.

I'm sure most C++ programmers have had some scenario, if they are interacting with system APIs, where they get an error saying that XYZ doesn't exist but you don't have anything in your entire code base named XYZ. And it turns out there's a macro that translates ABC to XYZ, and you named something ABC.

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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